LouHomey
From my favorite movies..
Console
best movie i've ever seen.
Intcatinfo
A Masterpiece!
webstb08
What I liked about this film was it took the James bond 007 movie idea and made it into a comedy. I did not like the humor I found it to be corny and a little to dry.The Director Michel Hazanavicius Was born and raised in Paris. Started off in Short Films then moves on to the 0SS 117 spy movies.He is best known for The Artist it won the Academy Award best Picture and won him Best Director .He has won Countless awards for his films and the OSS 117 was nominated for a French Cesar for best writing and won 2 awards At the Seattle film festival and Tokyo Film festival. Two idea's I felt were raised in this movie are it does not matter how good you are it matters how hard you try. He is not the best Agent he seems to get into more trouble by getting killed and followed through out the movie. Another idea raised is you can not always trust a pretty face. He seems to let his attraction for women get the best of him which lead him to trouble through out the movie. I felt the music helped make the fighting scenes and movie funnier with the loud bang or drums and horns. It also help set the mood for being in Egypt. The action effects were not impress they were very staged you saw them coming which took away from the humor of the movie and what the director was trying to capture.
cirko
If you're into James Bond, loved Top Secret and Clouseau, then you're going to love this one, too. And I'm glad it exists, because there had been a drought regarding really good spoofs recently! I saw this movie just recently for the first time, and the only reason I stayed with it while zapping was Jean Dujardin. My first thought was, "Weird guy, his face is like made from rubber", his range of facial expressions is really impressive, but his precision, too - you can clearly see that he must have invested a lot of work in his abilities. I liked Val Kilmer in Top Secret, but that movie lived off the hilarious ideas of the directors more than off the acting, and in this movie, it's the other way round - it's tailor-made for Dujardin, and he makes the most out of it. After seeing him, you'll immediately know what Connery was all about, as he's being dissected by Dujardin. No wonder he was perfect for playing a silent movie actor! Add a good prise of "super-agent"-daftness à la Sellers-Clouseau and on the other side, very intelligent puns (including "secret gems" :)) by the directing and screenplay, and voilà, you'll be entertained for an hour and a half. In a review, one would expect that the negative stuff one noticed will be discussed, too. You must excuse me, but - if there was any, I couldn't notice as I couldn't stop laughing! (The guitar scene is HILARIOUS).10 out of 10, can't help it!This is an instant classic, and it makes me want to see more from Dujardin, but from OSS-117 as well!
random_avenger
Adventures of agent OSS 117, a French colleague of James Bond. Upon hearing about the death of his long-time friend in Cairo, agent OSS 117 (Jean Dujardin) is sent to investigate revolutionary activity and the disappearance of a weapons ship in Egypt. Aiding him is an attractive but unenthusiastic lady assistant (Bérénice Bejo).Unlike the earlier books and movies in the series, this film takes a parodic approach to the character as well as other spy films of the 1960s, notably Connery-era Bonds: a pre-credit sequence, animated opening titles, brass music, faded cinematography and poor rear projection in driving scenes are all there. OSS 117 also takes Bond's characteristics further by being an openly smug and ignorant colonialist. There are many funny scenes, ranging from subtle (implications of OSS 117's homosexuality) to slapstick (using live chickens as throwing weapons). Recommended for spy movie fans.
R. Ignacio Litardo
OSS 117 was fun from start to finish.It's difficult to define why one film touches or connects with you or not, and I won't try to analyze such perfect comedy, so politically incorrect that even academic papers should be dedicated to it :)!Everything is old fashioned here, from women's clothes (sigh!), Mambo dance, the "hero singing"... ("Bambino" sounds like an Italian canzonetta sung in... arabic :)!).Hubert is physically imposing, but dumb as hell. From all the 007s, he looks like Sean Connery, but is definitely more sympa because he's... silly, speaks his mind all the time, giggles, even has some homoerotic fantasies and there are rumours about him. In short, as an anti hero, he rocks :)! Sometimes he only raises his eyebrows or frowns, and that's all it takes to make you laugh. Bérénice Bejo is the true queen of the film. Graceful, treacherous but with ideals. Aure Atika, to the contrary, is reduced to a femme fatale of sorts. It's surprising to see her that "sexy bomb", thou.You just can't compare it with "Austin Powers"! I agree with Amazon's D. Hartley (Seattle, WA) on it being respectful to the genre.Which is your favourite scene? One of my favourite scenes is the "fight of the chickens" with the masked villain. But the truly perfect one is when chatting at the cocktail with his contacts, how they all mutter platitudes with confidence... This scene alone makes the comedy genre worthwhile.
